Slow and steady to start… Today sees a guest blog from Cambridge-based researcher, Emily Mackay. Ms Mackay trawls the online world for “big data” – the numbers on capital flows, broken down by sector (equity, loan, charity, project, etc). Hers is a thoughtful and intelligent voice in the world of crowdfunding – a world that […]
NISAs, with tax-free returns, expected to include crowdfunded investments and loans “It has been a good week for savers,” opines Richard Evans, quite rightly in our view, in the Telegraph. On Tuesday, the amount that could be put into tax-free Isas – or NISAs (New Individual Savings Accounts as they are now called) rose to […]
A loan offer very much to our lenders’ taste Many congratulations to our Soulful Foods and Iain Burke-Hamilton. The loan auction was successful in raising £360,000 – capital that will be used to grow the business. Ian – pictured above – started making soups and stews for his lunch whilst working for M & […]
Hotel Chocolat is a great British success story. Between 2008 and 2013, when other retailers languished, it increased its number of stores by 174 per cent. Part of the funding for this expansion came from devotees of the brand, who invested in its first Chocolate Bond. Last week, it closed two more bonds; the Hotel […]
Liverpool’s where it’s at in July Once Centre of Empire, now centre of our attention. Liverpool, just across the Mersey river from where Money&Co. CEO Nicola Horlick grew up, hosts the International Festival of Business in the first week of July. Local newspaper, the Liverpool Echo, is rightly excited about the “big hitters” […]
Use online offerings to get H – E – L – P ! Nicola Horlick, Money&Co.’s CEO, blasts UK banks’ savings offering to investors. In the second instalment of her two-part blog, she highlights the “ Great Savings Robbery” – or “maybe we should rename the institutions Britain’s ‘Robber Banks’,” she adds. For details of […]
Vasconcelos: fast growth in equity funding Money&Co. recently hosted a dinner for leading figures in the crowdfunding industry in Cambridge. Gonçalo de Vasconcelos was one of several compelling diners that night, and we are delighted to note that Gonçalo’s equity-funding platform is one of the fastest-growing in the UK, according to Tania Ziegler of crowdfunding […]
The UK has “by far the fastest rate of growth” in world crowdfunding, according to a report in the Independent. “More than $133m was raised from crowdfunding – rewards and equity – in the first quarter of the year and 500 new projects are being launched daily on crowdfunding platforms around the world,” says the […]
Britain is set to overtake the United States as the world leader in crowdfunding, according to Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick. Speaking at a crowdfunding event organised by the NESTA charity (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts), the Money&Co. chief executive said: “I think we will become a world leader, partly because we are […]
SME Finance Monitor BDRC Continental has recently published a survey that highlights the growing number of alternative funding providers. Crowdfunding is cited as a prime example of this phenomenon. The Telegraph reports that small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs) are turning to alternative providers of finance. The news organisation’s enterprise editor, Rebecca Burn-Callander says that SMEs […]